The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global climate. Yet a paper published in New Phytologist shows that one of South ...

Peer-reviewed research on Brazil’s Cerrado biome is sharpening the picture of where some of the region’s most carbon-dense soils are found. A study published in the Journal of South American Earth ...

The Amazon and other tropical forests are known for being the planet’s natural carbon reservoirs. As such, they are key ...

A coalition of more than 40 scientists is warning that a proposal to create a new artificial shipping channel through South America's Pantanal wetlands could lead to the "end of an entire biome." The ...

The world's largest tropical wetland is under threat, with scientists warning that devastating wildfires and a proposed commercial waterway could spell the "end of an entire biome". "Nowhere else will ...

There’s nothing like winter’s thaw to make us rediscover the local landscape. As signs of spring crop up around us, it’s only natural to appreciate our surroundings anew. The show features thirteen ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s massive Pantanal ...